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One reader took issue with disabled comments at my blog. I came across the idea recently and it resonated with me. I’m trying it out. There are plenty of free blogging services and places for people to respond to what… Continue Reading →

Painless Wiki Editing

A big thanks to Christer Edwards for posting on the fantastic Firefox plugin called It’s All Text! I just started using it on the Fedora wiki and it is superb for large and complicated edits.  Make sure you enter the… Continue Reading →

Fedora 11 Feature Process Swings Into Action

Two weeks ago at the FESCo meeting we did our third post mortem of the feature process, made a few minor tweaks to the process, and started accepting features for Fedora 11 this week! This is our best start yet… Continue Reading →

Planning to Slip the Schedule

A discussion recently started on fedora-advisory-board list about the Fedora 11 schedule and turned to how much we have slipped in the past.  Admittedly it is kind of hard to say because we haven’t diligently tracked or reviewed our planned… Continue Reading →

Credit to Ubuntu

This report is impressive… receiving 7,872 new reports and resolving 7,802 bug reports in a single month while continuing to hold a backlog of 46,000 open bugs!  This says two things to me… they have a process for triaging and… Continue Reading →

Why Bug Triage?

A great observation came out of a recent bug triage meeting by David Nalley who noted that “there is great information about the HOW, but not the WHY or SO WHAT [of why bug triage is important].”  I took an… Continue Reading →

Final Fedora 10 Feature List

We are well past feature freeze and into the second week of the Fedora 10 beta release.  This means the feature list for Fedora 10 is set though some work remains to finish some of the features which had enough… Continue Reading →

Build Fedora 10 Beta ISOs with Jigdo

Performing a network install of the Fedora 10 beta didn’t work for me because of the bug in the Intel e1000e driver.  Using my local rawhide repo I built the ISOs to do a hard drive install from a separate… Continue Reading →

Bridged networking in virt-manager

I have an ongoing inability to commit to a single virtualization platform because I’m always looking for one that has everything I need, is free and open source, and runs well on my dinosaur hardware.  Maybe I’ll post another time… Continue Reading →

Fedora 10 Schedule Update

Last week the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) ratified the updated schedule proposed by the Release Engineering team.  This resulted in feature freeze for Fedora moving to 2008-09-09 and GA to 2008-11-18.  This three week change to the schedule was… Continue Reading →

Strange dd-wrt Firewall Rules

I recently got the urge to do a security review of a network I manage with a Linksys Router.  It was running the latest version of dd-wrt with a set of unmodified (as best I knew) firewall rules.  I had… Continue Reading →

Fedora 10 Feature Process and Beyond

Things are coming together for yet another Fedora release.  Although this is the tenth Fedora release it is only the third iteration of the new feature process.  From my vantage point the process is getting better though the level of… Continue Reading →

Just Had to Do It

With the help of a few other folks I’ve been trying to help revitalize our weekly bug triage meetings and meet on a consistent basis.  We’re meeting every Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT) on #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode. net. … Continue Reading →

Bug Triage Meeting

I sent the message below to fedora-test-list@redhat.com, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to get the word out here too.  General information about Fedora bug triage is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers or feel free to contact me directly. Thanks to those of you… Continue Reading →

FUDCon Boston Recap

These are my own thoughts and reflections on my own subjective experiences of this event.  What I have to say here should in no way be construed as criticizing the event planners or execution of FUDCon Boston 2008.  I know… Continue Reading →

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